Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HENDRED (WEST or LITTLE)

HENDRED (WEST or LITTLE), a parish in Wantage district, Berks; on a small affluent of the river Thames, 3 miles SW by S of Steventon r. station, and 3¼ E of Wantage. It includes the tythings of East Ginge and Sparsholt Court; and its post town is East Hendred under Wantage. Acres, 1, 973. Real property, £3, 078. Pop., 351. Houses, 79. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £751.* Patron, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church has an embattled tower, and is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: West Hendred CP/AP       Wantage RegD/PLU       Berkshire AncC
Place names: HENDRED     |     HENDRED LITTLE     |     HENDRED WEST     |     HENDRED WEST OR LITTLE     |     LITTLE HENDRED     |     WEST HENDRED
Place: West Hendred

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